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...squeeze by which the Communists have choked to death the West's once mighty business empire in China. Eight years ago, some 600 Western enterprises had investments in China totaling about $1.3 billion. Since the Communists took over, the attrition rate has been tremendous. In some cases, "to safeguard China's security," the Reds have simply seized foreign assets, e.g., Britain's Shell Co. of China and the U.S.'s Standard Vacuum and Caltex oil companies. In China today, only about 15 Western companies still operate, with fewer than 250 Westerners running them. Almost...
...also expressed reservations about the wisdom of the Corporation's deploring the use of the Fifth Amendment in Congressional proceedings. They pointed out that the reasons, both legal and moral, for invoking the Constitutional safeguard were many and complicated, and they did not think it necessary for the Corporation to decide flatly against...
...Justice Moody of the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, the right to refuse to bear witness against oneself is "a privilege of great value, a protection to the innocent, though a shelter to the guilty, and a safeguard against heedless, unfounded or tyrannical persecutions." Historically, the struggles of the Puritans against ecclesiastical inquisitions, which resulted in the Fifth Amendment, established that religious and political heresy is not a crime, but it is rather the right, if not the duty, of the citizen in a democracy; and that freedom of speech becomes meaningless without the corollary right to keep silent...
Five hundred miles to the east, across bare desert and mountain, in fabled Baghdad, another boy just turned 18, faced an elegant, white-tied assemblage of bearded senators, princes, sheiks and emissaries of 33 foreign lands. At the stroke of 8 on the same morning, he swore to "safeguard the constitution and independence" of Iraq. As Feisal became Iraq's third King, cannons also hammered a101-gun salute, and the people of the ancient, reconstituted kingdom (formerly Mesopotamia) cried their delight...
...held dogma that 2,600,000 whites (Boer and Briton) should rule four times their number of blacks, half-whites and browns. Malan's racial stand was strident: "This is South Africa's last chance to remain a white man's country. Our aim is to safeguard the purity of the white race." His special strength lay on the veldt, among the Afrikaans-speaking farmers whose fathers had conquered the blacks only to see their early Boer Republic snuffed out by British imperialism. Egged on by predikants (ministers) of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Nationalists made gory...